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    perf tools: Encode kernel module mappings in perf.data · b7cece76
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    We were always looking at the running machine /proc/modules,
    even when processing a perf.data file, which only makes sense
    when we're doing 'perf record' and 'perf report' on the same
    machine, and in close sucession, or if we don't use modules at
    all, right Peter? ;-)
    
    Now, at 'perf record' time we read /proc/modules, find the long
    path for modules, and put them as PERF_MMAP events, just like we
    did to encode the reloc reference symbol for vmlinux. Talking
    about that now it is encoded in .pgoff, so that we can use
    .{start,len} to store the address boundaries for the kernel so
    that when we reconstruct the kmaps tree we can do lookups right
    away, without having to fixup the end of the kernel maps like we
    did in the past (and now only in perf record).
    
    One more step in the 'perf archive' direction when we'll finally
    be able to collect data in one machine and analyse in another.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    LKML-Reference: <1263396139-4798-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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